participate in communal activities. Winston‚ locked in loneliness‚ becomes a lunatic‚ a minority of one‚ the only man still capable of independent thought. He is “The Last Man in Europe” precisely because he adheres to the importance of the individual mind. Orwell shows that totalitarianism paradoxically intensifies solitude by forcing all the isolated beings into one overpowering system. “Much of Orwell’s success in Nineteen Eighty-Four‚” writes history professor Malcolm Thorp‚ “lies in his creating a plausible
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opposition and take extreme measures to secure their power. Many authors have written about totalitarians and what they could entail. One of the most famous authors‚ George Orwell‚ dictates the story of how Ingsoc led to the rise of the Party and recounts the daily lives‚ struggles‚ and adventures of its citizens. In the book‚ 1984‚ Orwell cautions society about the future of government control and the dangers of totalitarianism through pointing out the paths which they take‚ but society has done little
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1984 by George Orwell Part 1 Reading Journal‚ Chapters 1-8 These eight chapters open the readers up to the world Winston Smith lives in. The first chapter shows us the first act of rebellion that Winston does‚ which is writing in his diary. The first chapter gives readers a glimpse into how everything works. “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment” (ch.1). In the first chapter‚ we also learn of Big Brother and the Thought Police. We learn of telescreens
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The Resistance of Winston and Julia In his novel ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’‚ George Orwell created a new world which is divided into three intercontinental super-states after a global war. The novel occurs in Oceania‚ which is one of these super-states. There are three parts of the social system; the upper-class Inner Party‚ the middle-class Outer Party and the lower class Proles‚ who make up 85 percent of the population and represent the working class‚ in other words; Big Brother; the party leader
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George Orwell’s essay ‘Why I Write?’ is a detailed account of his way towards becoming a writer. He takes the reader on a journey from his first poems and stories to the pieces of writing that make him famous to finally explain the four reasons of writing. Orwell experiments with ‘a mere description of what I was doing and the things I saw’ and naturalistic books before he becomes a political writer. Why a political writer? Well‚ it is the age he lives in that forces him into it. His working
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However‚ Oceania is depicted as a country where the people are deprived of freedoms such as freedom of thought‚ freedom of speech‚ and the freedom of expression. Orwell describes Oceania as a cold‚ bleak‚ war torn country where the inhabitants are kept under surveillance 24/7‚ and left without the many freedoms that we take for granted. Winston‚ the protagonist of the story is always trying to suppress his inner thoughts that may conflict the the ideology of the party. At the beginning of the
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tomorrow’s peril” (1999)‚ George Orwell‚ in 1984‚ describes a form of government which is akin to the tyrannies of today‚ a nation in which the masses are ill-educated and free speech is punishable. The elites do this to preserve their short-term status‚ dooming society to disaster in the long term. 1984 is a book that in many ways represented the fears of the time‚ in which the “threats” of socialism were omnipresent on the headlines of western media. But‚ where Orwell thought to be portraying the
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this is quite possibly one of the worst things to have ever happened to the progress of the United States. People are scared. This fear is being showcased on the bestsellers list‚ as 1984 by George Orwell is climbing the charts yet again. There are alarming similarities between the society created by Orwell and the society we are currently living in‚ just a few being the censorship of news and Winston rewriting news‚ the normalization of both the Oceania government’s lies and Donald Trump’s‚ and
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"Hanging on to Max" Written by Margaret Bechard In the year 2000‚ there were 812‚ 810 teen pregnancies. Do the math and that is eighty-four pregnancies for every one-thousand teenagers. What a way to ring in the millennium. In "Hanging on to Max"‚ Margaret Bechard is trying to get a point across to teens. Like the other five novels Bechard has written‚ she is trying to show teens that engaging in premarital sex has its consequences. "Hanging on to Max" takes a look into the everyday life of
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The novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell takes place in a totalitarian nation that has full control of media and media production. Even the pornorgraphic films are produced by the state. The situation in 1984 represents the ultimate manifestation of what was close to becoming a reality in Soviet Russia‚ waging war on citizens. The Party controls all aspects of society in 1984 and everyone owes their allegiance to Big Brother. Under Stalin’s rule‚ people worshiped him as a god. The 40 million citizens who
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